Improvement in wire-fences



UNITED STATES PATENT DEEICE.

HENRI( M. ROSE, OF WATERMAN STATION, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE-FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,763, dated May 13,1873; application filed December 31, 1872.

i the-construction of fences so as to make them,

when made light, an effective barrier to stock, and which shall besimple and inexpensive in construction. The invention consists in thecombination of strips, provided with metallic points, with the Wires andposts of an ordinary Wire-fence, as hereinafter fully described. y

A represents the posts of the fence, which are set sixteen feet, more orless, apart, and between which are stretched two, three, or more wires,B. The wires B may be secured to the posts A by staples, by being passedthrough said posts, or in any other of the well-known ways for securingwires to posts. G is a strip of board, an inch square, or of any otherconvenient size, to which are secured or inserted metallic points D, sixor eight, more or less, inches apart. The points D are made of wire, cutobliquely at any desired angle, so as to form sharp points, and may belong, so as to pass through the strip C and project upon both sides, orthey may be made short, so as to project upon one side only. In thiscase, they may be inserted in one or more sides of the strip O, as maybe desired. The strip G D is secured to the upper Wire B when two wiresare used, and to the middle wire when three wires are used, by wirebands E passed around said wire and strip, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In case the wires B are secured to the sides of the posts A by staples,the strips (l D may be made so long that their ends may rest against thesides of said posts.

The points D may also be attached to an ordinary board-fence, to preventstock from pushing against it, and thus enable it to be made lighterthan it could otherwise be made With safety.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination of wooden strip C with metallicpoints D, and wire bands E with the wires-B and posts A of an ordinarywire-fence, as and for the purpose described.

' HENRY MARTIN ROSE.

Witnesses CLARK B. SAMSON, J. W. Grans.

